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Helping golfers - Cleveland State University


Mar 13, 2006 1:01:58 AM



 

Helping golfers — Dan Prokopchak scored a hole-in-one earlier this month — and he wasn’t even on a golf course. A coach in the Cleveland Sight Center’s blind golf program, Prokopchak had read about Cleveland State University’s John Telich Sr. Golf Technology Center and came up with an idea to link some of his students with members of the Vikings golf team. The resulting golf clinic was a win-win situation for all. On a recent Saturday morning, the Telich Center hosted about a dozen golfers from the Sight Center. The golfers, their coaches and Cleveland State student-athletes took turns on the putting green and at a pair of hitting stalls. “It was a challenge because I couldn’t just show someone with my hands, I had to clearly express myself with words,” said senior civil engineering major and three-time all-Horizon League selection Kristen Obush. “It was neat to see their enthusiasm. Every single one of them was happy to be there and didn’t want to leave.”


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